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Re: Favourites./Isiah 40

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Subject: Re: Favourites./Isiah 40
From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:09:39 +0100 (BST)
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 Steven_Harlow@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm interested to hear, the Soprano has a top A for about sixteen long
> beats in Isiah 40, could any of them hold it?

Ours can just about, though his tuning goes a bit.  Anyway, this is where
the bass trombone goes balistic, so you'll be luck to hear anything else
:)

> 
> Also, I'm sending out a bit of a "feeler" on Lowry's Sketchbook, its on our
> shortlist for an owncoice at our next nationals, anyone got any opinions?

Very wibbly, and according to many unadjudacatable for the most part.
You'll need a crack band to play it.

> Steve Harlow
> Baritone
> St Marys Brass
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> > Tim Morgan <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > There's also a now infamous bottom F natural for the 3rd cornets in this
> > section of IsAiah 40.  I'm sure on the Grimethorpe CD the cornets smack
> > out a perfect F#...anyone else noticed this?
> I haven't heard the recording, but remember the notes in question when I
> played the piece with Brighouse when it was the Cambridge test piece.  As
> far as I remember, our horn players played the note, leaving the 3rd
> cornets to mime!!  I'm not sure whether the horns had the note anyway, or
> whether they were given it.
> These days composers write easy passages within pieces in such a way that
> they are made more difficult, knowing full well that bands are going to
> re-arrange them to make them easy again.  You may (or may not) be suprised
> to know that all top bands (and I mean all) re-arrange parts of test pieces
> to make them easier.
> One classic example is Black Dyke at the nationals 2 years ago (Songs for
> BL ?) where there is an F above top C, followed by a D then another F for
> the solo trombone.  Most trombone players got the note, but Dykes solo horn
> player actually played the notes while the trombone player mimed !!  Will
> this stir up a debate ??
> Funnily enough Dyke didn't win, but neither did we.
> Martin Irwin.
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